Wire hook



(No Model.)

G. KINGSTON. WIRE HOOK.

No. 493,626. Pateaited Mar. 14, 1898.

UNTTED STATES PATENT EETcE.

GEORGE KINGSTON, OF WVORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

WIRE HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 493,626, dated March14, 1893.

Application filed April 10, 1891. Serial No. 388,413. (No model.)

To all whom. it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE KINGSTON, of the city and county of Worcesterand State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Wire Ooat'and Hat Hooks; and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this [0specification, and in which Figure 1 represents a top or plan view of myaforesaid improved hook. Fig. 2 isaside view thereof. Fig. 3 is asimilar side view showing the hook applied to a strip of wood,

as in use, and also a modification in the construction hereinafterdescribed, and Figs. 4 and 5 represent similar views to Figs. 1 and 2,of part of a hook showing another modification, also hereinafterdescribed.

My invention relates to coat and hat hooks a hook which may be securelyand quickly fastened to the wooden hook-strip withoutthe use of screwsand without danger of cracking the plasteriug of the wall when drivingthe fastening prongs of the hook into the hook 3o strip.

To this end my invention consists in a wire hook of the constructionhereinafter fully described and as set forth in the claim of thisspecification.

In order that others may better understand the nature and purpose of mysaid invention, I will now proceed to describe it more in detail.

In the drawings A represents the shank, B

40 the upper hook which constitutes the outer end or continuation ofsaid shank, G the bottom hook which is extended down and forward fromthe base or inner end of said shank, and D D the angular prongs before 5alluded to, which project rearwardly a short distance about upon a linewith the shank and then down at about right angles thereto, and areprovided at their extremities with pointed ends adapted to be driveninto the wood in fastening the hook in position as hereinafterspecified.

In constructing the hook the wire is doubled along the whole length ofthe parts constituting the upper and lower hooks and shank, with theends of the wire in said formation terminating beyond the juncture ofthe shank and lower hook, sufficient length of wire being allowed atsaid ends to produce the angular prongs D D, and to bend the wire at theinner ends of the prongs so as to hold the doubled wires of the hook inposit-ion.

In the hook shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the end a, constituting acontinuation of one of the shank wires,is bent laterally andhorizontally extending out but a short distance, then at right anglesrearwardly a little longer distance, and finally downwardly at rightangles thus forming one of the pointed prongs D. The other end b of thewire which extends up from the lower hook passes up back of the lat--erally projecting part b of the other end, thence over said laterallyprojecting part and down under the two shank wires, thence laterallyabout the same distance and in an opposite direction to the other end a,thence rearwardly and down to form the other pointed prong D, bothprongs being substantially in line, horizontally, with the shank A, aspreviously stated. In the construction shown in Figs. 4 and 5 the end ais first passed laterally under the other or main shank wire thenrearward and down to produce one of said prongs, and the other end I)crosses laterally in the opposite direction under the end a between itslateral projection a and the main wire 0 of the lower hook, also underthe aforesaid main shank wire, then rearwardly and down to produce theother prong. It will be understood that in bending the wires asaforesaid to produce said prongs they are also in practice preferablybent in curved form sufficiently to bring the wires on a levellaterally: that is, one wire being bent around another a sufficientdistance to bring the shank wires as well as the two prongs upon alevel. If desired, the wires of the shank may be intertwisted as shownin Fig. 3 to fasten said wires together and thus stiffen said shank.

In fastening the hook in position for use, it is placed with the back ofthe lower hook against the wood strip to which it is to be secured, andthe points of the prongs against the top edge thereof, then, holding thehook with one hand; and a hammer in the other the vertical pointed ends(I d of the prongs are driven into the wood so that the horizontalportions e e will lie upon or be partially embedded in the surfacethereof.

The operation, it will at once be apparent, may be very easily andexpeditiously performed, and the hook when thus fastened with the backof the bottom hook against the support and the ends d (1 driven into thetop thereof is held in a very secure and perfect manner. It is held moresecurely than by the use of an ordinary straight drive-point, andconsiderable expense and time is saved by dispensing with the usual scrtws or other separate fastenings commonly used.

I am aware of the United States patent to C. 0. Pierce, No. 377,772,dated February 14, 1888, for improvements in wire hooks and I claimtherein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A coat and hat hook consisting of a single piece of wire and comprisingthe shank A, of doubled wire, having the hook B at its outer end, thebottom hook 0 formed from a continuation of said doubled wire shank, andthe two separated prongs D at the top portion of said hook and formedfrom the two end portions of the wire bent outward at the rear portionof the said shank, said prongs being provided with the downwardlyprojecting pointed drive ends d.

GEORGE KINGSTON. Witnesses:

A. A. BARKER, W. B. NOURSE.

